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bald1
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Yes, crazy! Wow! A Sikorsky S92 helo is tasked with making the grab during the booster stage descent.

And the Electron rocket engines are 3D printed. Eek

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream/


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Wow, this is amazing indeed...



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The space launch and exploration innovations being made by private industry firms is astounding. Exposes NASA as a bumbling overly expensive and inefficient beauracracy.

The tricky helo recovery is a miss today but they have a backup ocean recovery procedure.


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Unfortunate the Sikorsky catch didn't happen today. An ocean retrievel is not considered a fail per se, however.


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Fascinating!

Thanks for posting.


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The space launch and exploration innovations being made by private industry firms is astounding. Exposes NASA as a bumbling overly expensive and inefficient beauracracy.


You don't know the half of it. I did a bunch of jobs for them and have seldom seem more incompetents gathered together in the same place.

They even make Homeland Security look like a bunch of hard workers.
 
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No incentive to turn a profit or finish the job on time. Worked at a place like that. Spending someone else's money was fun. I was just a worker, not in management.
 
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Here's a successful mid-air catch made for the first time 6 months ago. The catch itself was a success, although the Sikorsky pilot decided to subsequently release the cargo when the heli felt strange compared with previous test catches.



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